342 search results for “modern rhetoric” in the Student website
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: ‘It is an art to appeal to them properly’
How do you make lobbying and rhetoric both challenging and understandable for high school students? Professor Jaap de Jong found the answer in climate activist Greta Thunberg. Together with his colleague Arco Timmermans, he developed a digital guest lecture on how to present a convincing story.
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Maarten van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
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Nina WittemanFaculty of Humanities
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Frans Willem Korsten
Faculty of Humanities
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Joost AugusteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
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Informal workshop Global rhetoric
Lecture, Workshop
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Alex ReunekerFaculty of Humanities
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Ronny BoogaartFaculty of Humanities
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Helen SteeleFaculty of Humanities
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Henk KernFaculty of Humanities
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Raymond FagelFaculty of Humanities
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Lauren LauretFaculty of Humanities
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Nadine AkkermanFaculty of Humanities
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Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
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Women in early modern courtrooms: 'A cross-section of society'
In early modern England, courts of law were working overtime. University lecturer Lotte Fikkers delved into the records of centuries-old court cases involving women. In Early Modern Women's Life-Writing and English Law, she reconstructs how the story they told in court differs from the one they wrote…
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Nicolette MoutFaculty of Humanities
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Peter LiebregtsFaculty of Humanities
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Casper de Jonge: 'By broadening the canon we keep antiquity modern'
On 1 May, Casper de Jonge will be appointed Professor of Greek Language and Literature. ‘Greek literature did not come from Athens alone: authors from Egypt, Syria and Asia Minor also wrote in Greek.’
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Archaeological excavations in Romania show life of earliest modern humans in Europe
In a new article in the journal Scientific Reports, Leiden archaeologist Wei Chu and colleagues report on recent excavations in Western Romania at the site of Româneşti, one of the most important sites in southeastern Europe associated with the earliest Homo sapiens. The site gives an important glimpse…
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Lionel LaborieFaculty of Humanities
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Weishuo Li -
Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Marika KeblusekFaculty of Humanities
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Medieval insights for modern urban planning
Historical geographer Marcel IJsselstijn developed a new approach that improves our understanding of how medieval cities were planned. He hopes it will help archaeologists, urban planners and designers address contemporary challenges.
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Modern Arabic titles in catalogue searchable in Arabic script
Modern Arabic titles in the catalogue of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) can now also be consulted in original Arabic script. Taking away the need to transliterate titles, has made searching for Arabic source materials in the catalogue much easier and more efficient for users.
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Paula HarveyFaculty of Humanities
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Kyra AlbertsFaculty of Humanities
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Laurie Kalb CosmoFaculty of Humanities
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
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Felicia RosuFaculty of Humanities
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Steven LauritanoFaculty of Humanities
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Dark basement becomes modern and inspiring learning and research environment
Na een grote verbouwing is het souterrain van het Pieter de la Courtgebouw bijna onherkenbaar veranderd. Donkere, verouderde ruimtes maakten plaats voor frisse, lichte onderwijszalen en ruime, moderne labruimtes met state-of-the-art faciliteiten. Donderdag 12 juni was de officiële opening.
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Liesbeth MinnaardFaculty of Humanities
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Jesse SarneelFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen DuindamFaculty of Humanities
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Jonathan Powell: ‘In early modern England, people went to court very often.’
Jonathan Powell came to Leiden from England to conduct research into the role of women in early modern court cases. In addition to all kinds of exciting documents, he also discovered the biscuits from the Water & Bloem bakery and the wild flowers at the Groenesteeg cemetery.
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Carmen van den BerghFaculty of Humanities
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Catherine WoodFaculty of Humanities
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities
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The protagonist of horror is the ghost of modern consumer society
Who doesn't love to turn on a horror film on a rainy evening? Fortunately, it is only fiction - or is it? According to university lecturer Evert Jan van Leeuwen, modern horror says more about our society than we think. He has been nominated for the Klokhuis Science Prize for his research into addiction…
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
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War and Peace Studies: New CSM track focusses on modern war, warfare and peace building efforts
War and peace studies. A topic that is more relevant than ever because of the war in Ukraine. In September, the MSc Crisis and Security Management (CSM) will start a new track: War and Peace Studies. CSM’s Programme Director, Ernst Dijxhoorn, discusses the new track, how it was created and what students…
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Holly Riach: ‘Early modern books are less chaotic than previously thought’
In the early modern period, it was perfectly normal to find recipes, legal documents or medical writings in a book of poems. Holly Riach studied the underlying principles of these ‘miscellanies’ during her PhD.
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Judith PollmannFaculty of Humanities
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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities